World Breastfeeding Week: 'I told myself I would never deny my children exclusive breastfeeding'

60 per cent children are not exclusively breastfed from age zero to six months. [iStockphoto]

Before Josina Auma got married five years ago, she had imagined she would exclusively breastfeed her future children for the maximum number of months recommended by medical experts; six months.

She says: "My children must be like my older sister's children, who were exclusively breastfed. I lived with her when she started having babies, and I can attest to all the benefits her children derived from being exclusively breastfed. None of them ever fell seriously ill while growing up, much less spent a night in a hospital. Because of all this, I told myself that I would never deny my children exclusive breastfeeding."